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Saga f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Tettigoniidae – certain bush crickets.

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Etymology 1

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From Japanese 佐賀 (Saga).

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Saga

  1. Saga Prefecture (a prefecture in western Kyushu, Japan)
  2. The capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan.
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Etymology 2

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From saga or its etymon Old Norse saga.

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Saga

  1. (rare) A unisex given name.
    Saga Becker
    • 2007, Saga McOdongo, Deadly money maker
    • 2019 January 28, Dimitris Akrivos, Alexandros K. Antoniou, Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Springer, →ISBN, page 34:
      [] Saga Norén's personal story that forms the series' sentimental narrative. As part of her strategy to develop ways to understand the personal motivations of the killers and other people around her, Saga Norén actively uses her partners []

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Borrowed from Tibetan ས་དགའ (sa dga').

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Saga

  1. A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
    • 2003, Michele Martin, Music in the Sky: The Life, Art, and Teachings of the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje[1], Snow Lion Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:
      Previously, they had met a man from Saga county, not far from the Nepali border, who had given an interesting piece of information: from his place, he had seen people escaping over a mountain into Nepal.
    • 2010, Jonathan Green, Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet[2], 1st edition (Politics), PublicAffairs, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:
      More likely than capture is death at the hands of Chinese border police. Killings like that of fifteen-year-old Yeshe Dundrub, shot at night in Saga County (Ch: Saga Xian) in November 1999, while fleeing with forty others to Nepal, are covered up when possible. (Dundrub, whose dream was to be a monk, died in a military hospital bed nine hours after he was shot.)
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Saga f

  1. a female given name

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Swedish

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Saga c (genitive Sagas)

  1. a female given name derived from the Swedish noun saga, used since the 19th century

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